Shahin Gobadi

Tonight, the absolute clerical rule (Velayat-e Faqih) has effectively turned itself into a hereditary monarchy by placing Mojtaba Khamenei on the throne. But it cannot save the shipwrecked vessel of religious fascism. Once again, this regime, just like the monarchical dictatorship in 1979, lacks credibility and legitimacy in the eyes of the Iranian people. This is yet another theft and usurpation of the sovereignty of the Iranian people’s republic, proving once again that a viper does not give birth to a dove. For more than three decades, Mojtaba Khamenei, alongside his father, has been among the principal architects of repression, the export of fundamentalism and terrorism, and the plundering of the Iranian people’s wealth. In practice, he has long functioned as his father’s de facto successor. He bears responsibility for the massacres and suppression of popular uprisings, for controlling the country’s resources and economy, and for the systematic looting of national wealth—imposing the harshest oppression and exploitation on the majority of Iranians, especially women and the working and underprivileged classes, including nurses, teachers, workers, farmers, and retirees. Yet the outraged Iranian people, who have risen up in successive uprisings to overthrow this regime, will not retreat in the face of the clerical mafia ruling Iran. The destiny of Iran will be written by its people. The resistance, the organized uprising, and the Liberation Army will have the decisive role. The Iranian people have rejected every form of dictatorship and demand a democratic republic based on free and universal elections. The six-month provisional government is not intended to seize power, but to transfer sovereignty to the people of Iran in pursuit of this very objective.

Based on the NCRI program, after the fall of the regime, the provisional government is obliged to hold free and fair elections within six months for the formation of a Constituent Assembly and a national legislative body. Subsequently, power will be handed over to the newly elected representatives of the people, who will assume responsibility for governing the country and drafting the new constitution.

Announcement of a Provisional Government by the National Council of Resistance of Iran to Transfer Sovereignty to the People of Iran and Establish a Democratic Republic Based on Mrs. Maryam Rajavi's Ten-Point Plan